Please provide copies of any correspondence from the Department to local authorities between September 2013 and March 2014 which deals with elective home education/home schooling and home educated children/young people."

Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2014/0033396.

Dear Ms Nicholson,
Thank you for your email dated 24 April 2014 about Elective Home
Education.

I must ask you for clarification of this request. Do you mean
correspondence with authorities in general about home education as a
subject, or do you mean correspondence with individual local authorities
about particular EHE cases. If the latter, the correspondence will almost
certainly be exempt from disclosure because of the personal information it
contains.
Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2014/0033396. If
you need to respond to us, please visit:
[1]www.education.gov.uk/contactus, and quote your reference number.

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Dear Ms Nicholson,
Thank you for your email dated 24 April 2014 about Elective Home
Education.

In the time period of September 2013 and March 2014 there were only four
communications between the Department and local authorities about elective
home education. All of these were about specific matters, not the general
issue. Attached are copies of the two emails involved, and two letters. In
each case, as you know, personal data has been redacted being exempt under
s.40 of the Freedom Of Information Act.
Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2014/0036020. If
you need to respond to us, please visit:
[1]www.education.gov.uk/contactus, and quote your reference number.